Hi,
I'm new to this community.
I was wondering if i could get some advice for my story? Im having a little trouble starting this one :S
My inspirations Are Tolkien and Paolini so its a fantasy one, set in my own world.
Its over here for anyone who can help.
Thank You! x

Call it ranting, call it blasphemy, but I can't keep it in any longer!

As much as I love linking things to the past in anime, I'm really getting tired of the history repeating itself theme. I don't like the main characters fitting into the older/past characters shoes so that some great cycle can relive itself until one of those characters is able to say "Yeah, well I'm changing history now." It's so cliche! ARGH!!



In other news, I just started reading Dracula for the first time ever. I've barely gotten to the part where John Harker meets Dracula and I must say, John is the biggest uke-type ever. I'm not going to be able to read this book and NOT think yaoi.
....>_>

Monday:

I found out someone I know found a match.

Tuesday:
fartyfishy was called and told she was a match for someone.

Pat went to a conference on software, and the last talk on Tuesday was about happiness. The speaker has some experience and research in social media and cancer patients, re: bone marrow drives. She sent me a passel of information that I received on Thursday.

HCBU.bethematch.org launched.

Wednesday:

Survived it, thanks to friends and family. I ate lots of comfort food.

Thursday:

One of Emru's former students informed me that she signed up as a donor in his honour.

I received an amazing email from someone who is forming a registry linked into the larger US registries and he actually used one of my suggestions. This man is way smarter than me, so if he thinks I did something right, then I think I'm doing it right.

Mr. P came home! After what was probably the worst week of the year for him to leave, I was so relieved and happy to see his face. He had a great time, and although he didn't want to go because of the timing, it was well worth it. You would puke or think I was on drugs if I revealed just how much I actually love him, so I'll spare you. We talked more about the developments from Monday to Thursday.

Today:

This: Yes.



So awesome. Affirm the Charter here

Hey, another cry for school help.

I need to write a persuasive speech and I have nothing I'm interested/passionate about to try and persuade ppl over. (at least, nothing I can think of at the moment)

Long story short, does anyone know of any interesting persuasive topics? My prof mentioned the landing on the moon which I thought was pretty cool, but now that she's said it, it's sort of off limits XD

my new chapter! please click on the link, read, and COMMENT!
http://funguslover123.livejournal.com/1861.html

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New FCK fixes rich text editor!

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Papered in postcards

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Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Over the weekend I was helping my mom make dinner (which is rare), when my dad walked in with a basketful of limes from one of the trees in the backyard. After my mom informed him the food would be ready in a few minutes, I turned around from the stove and proudly stated, "The women have cooked!"

My dad then proceeded to stare at me for a moment before smirking and setting the basket on the table with the declaration of, "And the man has foraged!"

As we shared a laugh, my mom (who is not from this country XD) threw her hands up and complained, "What the heck? Are we cavemen now??"

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On Saturday I was called in as an emergency babysitter for two kids I met all of once at a birthday party a few years ago. The boy seems to have restless wandering syndrome when tired and somehow fell asleep under the coffee table.

I left him there.

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I was taking two little girls to the Springs Preserve here in Vegas and told them we were getting on the freeway so they needed to stay calm and not fight. The 5 year old asked what a freeway was and after explaining it to her, both children fell into silence as asked.

Several minutes later, the 5 year old spoke up. "Freeway? This should be called the speedway!" D8

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A three year old I watch has a wart on her elbow. How or why it got there is a mystery, but it's there and she decided to show me this anomaly. After gawking at it for the appropriate amount of time (two seconds) I leaned back and asked her what she thought it was.

With a shrug, she told me it was probably a marble.

I laughed at her so hard, she changed her mind and said it wasn't a marble.

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After a dry spell of not sitting on babies for nearly a month, I was finally called in, only for the mother to realize I wasn't really needed. She decided to have me stay anyways, saying the girls really missed me.

I looked over at the two little darlings and kindly responded, "You're not allowed to tell me that when they're huddled in a corner watching TV on a cell phone."

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And those are my random stories for today :D

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Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

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Leave me a comment saying "rainbow"

I'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.

Update your journal with the answers to the questions.

Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

Mignonne's questions:

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I mostly don't post on LJ anymore, because I don't have very much time. My mind is also often on automatic pilot. See my previous posts for why I also spend less time on LJ.

Another reason is I have never been articulate in a way that satisfies me when I journal. It is an effort. It is like pulling teeth, and it never comes out the way I want it to.

Right now my mind has been a jumble.

I am SO MUCH BETTER than where I was a year ago, but I would lie to say, "I am healed."

I am actually very happy. But the pain surprises me at times.

I lost my brother, but I also lost my best friend.

I also lost someone who owned more stuff than I do, and I am still trying to figure out what to do with a good portion of it!

I also had projects I was in the middle of working on, projects that are now a moot point, projects that I want to start, and a completely different set of goals. Oh wait, that's Life.

I still have problems reading, and my level of distraction is higher. My attention span has become that of a gnat.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what to do with fps, and I think it might be time to call it quits, but work on it enough first so it is in a state where I feel comfortable walking away while I do other things. I am still not sure.

I remind myself of the things I am doing right, and Mr. Perfect does the same for me constantly. I am so grateful we found each other, and even more amazed of how steadfast he is during this time.

As almost a year has passed, there are things that I am still not good at doing. I have to admit that I am not organized anymore and just move on. I classify myself as a reader more for nostalgic reasons that for any books read this year. Just deal with it. I've had less problems acknowledging that I could care less if I am the first person to see such and such movie or read such and such book or comic, and I have always been like that, it's just more apparent since I am now "behind" (others' words not mine) and people notice.

Mr P has lost a lot of weight, and I've only lost a little, but we're going to do the home stretch together. We're a good team. No pressure.

I've been sick for the past few days, so now that I finally have a weekend to myself, I actually have little energy to do anything, even read a book. But I'll try.

I don't really know why I am writing this. It's almost a year since my bro died, and I was really fearing this week, but as it got closer, I was more and more OK with it, and showed me I was improving, but since November hit, it's been one flashback after another.

Babysat for a different family tonight...What is with parents coming home in the MIDDLE of Avatar episodes??!? At this rate I'm going to end up being only HALF familiar with EVERY episode in the series!!

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Fangirl-time!!!

Last night, I had to babysit. And after the little darling went to bed, I sat down and watched about 3 hours worth of TiVo'd Avatar episodes. They were in no particular order, which I was okay with. I saw something from the very beginning, some stuff from the middle, learned about Zuko's past (which made my heart go doki doki), and then was suddenly thrust into the climax of the very end of the series - when the big battles begin. Naturally (lol, I typed 'Narutolly' XD), it was in the middle of THIS episode that the parents decided to come home. I was so into what I was watching that I went a little nuts (only in my head) and did a LOT of mental keyboard smashing as I was forced to turn the tv off and head home.

I've never really followed Avatar before and now want to watch the whole series, beginning to end ._.

Moving on!
( One Piece spoilers )

OKAY! Time for the next one!

( Hitman Reborn! )

The empire strikes back

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RSS feeds again

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Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

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Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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Do you have a favourite HP book? Which one? Why?

My answers ( here )

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